"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:web.43ba7abd7585287e731f01d10@news.povray.org...
>
> > Who wants to guess how long it took to render?
>
>      .099 zillion hours?  ;)

Actually, the very first guess of 108 minutes is closest - almost dead-on.
15 minutes of that is parse time, however! If I turn radiosity off, it only
takes about 25 minutes. This nicely illustrates how fast meshes can be
rendered: yes folks, 'tis 100% triangles!

There's been quite a lot of comment on the darkness of the scene. I wanted
it dark, but maybe not quite this dark - I rendered it on my iBook, which
has a very bright screen compared to my office PC (perhaps I should turn it
down a bit...). As mentioned above, this image does use radiosity, and I
can just dimly make out detail in the shadowed areas on my monitor.

Up/down - I can easily add a railing below(?) the steps as well, but I'm
concerned that it might make the image too busy. I'll try it and see what
it looks like. Next job: people.

Right, I'd better get knotted ;)

Bill

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